An Act relative to the Otoe and Missouria, 1910

An Act relative to the Otoe and Missouria, 1910

June 25, 1910

[Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from the United States Statutes at Large, Volume 36, which contains the public laws passed by the Sixty-First Congress during its second session in 1910. The following text is from Chapter 431 (36 Stat. 859).]

Sec. 15. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to convey by a patent in fee simple the tract of land described as the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section ten, township twenty-three north, range two east of the Indian meridian, containing forty acres, more or less, reserved for and occupied by the Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs, in the former Otoe and Missouria Reservation, in Oklahoma, for religious, mission, or school purposes, to such board of trustees as the proper officers of said society shall designate: Provided, however, That no conveyance shall be made without the consent of the Indians and the payment by said society of a just compensation for the lands to be conveyed, the price to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior: And provided further, That the moneys derived from such source shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Otoe and Missouria Indians, to be expended for their benefit in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior under such regulations as he may prescribe.

Approved, June 25, 1910.

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